About this Event
Get Ready for BHL Day 2026!
Join us for BHL Day 2026 presented as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Annual Meeting at the Natural History Museum in London! Themed “Towards a biodiversity data ecosystem built on BHL data", the program will include oral presentations and lightning talks from local biodiversity experts and partners from across the BHL consortium. The hybrid event will be held in London and streamed live via Teams. For the complete program, visit https://bit.ly/bhlday2026
Agenda
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM
Welcome to BHL Day 2026
Host: Doug Gurr
Info: Director of the Natural History Museum, London
🕑: 02:20 PM - 02:30 PM
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of BHL
Host: Nicole Kearney
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM
BHL and the Planetary Knowledge Base
Host: Qianqian Gu
Info: Natural History Museum, London
🕑: 02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
New interfaces for digital libraries
Host: Roderic Page
Info: University of Glasgow
🕑: 03:10 PM - 03:35 PM
Lightning Talks - 5 minutes each
Info: The next 5 talks in the agenda are lightning talks at 5 minutes each.
🕑: 03:10 PM - 03:15 PM
The potential of legacy data sets: challenges and ambitions from the legacy of
Host: Liz Smith
Info: Cambridge University Library and Archives
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:20 PM
Mobilising information from German-language biodiversity literature
Host: Gerwin Kasperek
Info: University Library Johann Christan Senckenberg
🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:25 PM
Activating the BHL for Storytelling and Teaching: The Plant Humanities Lab
Host: Yota Batsaki
Info: Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
🕑: 03:25 PM - 03:30 PM
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and BHL
Host: Lauren Hughes
Info: Natural History Museum, London
🕑: 03:35 PM - 03:40 PM
Wading Into BHL: How the USF Libraries’ is Preparing to Ingest its Archives
Host: Amanda Boczar
Info: University of South Florida
🕑: 03:40 PM - 03:55 PM
BREAK
🕑: 03:55 PM - 04:15 PM
The continuing saga of women, flowering plant genera and BHL
Host: Siobhan Leachman
Info: Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:35 PM
Growing seeds from Salonika after the Great War: Linking Kew datasets & BHL
Host: Christopher Kreuzer
Info: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
🕑: 04:35 PM - 04:55 PM
Q&A
🕑: 04:55 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Host: David Iggulden
Info: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom
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